sophisticated

Meaning

Adj

1. Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
2. Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
3. Complicated, especially of complex technology.
4. (obsolete) Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.
5. (obsolete) Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.

Verb

simple past and past participle of sophisticate

sophisticate

• Verb
• Adj
• Noun

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Opposite of

provincial

Synonyms

intricate

complicated

urbane

refined

advanced

worldly

worldly-wise

mature

jazz

tricky

fine

learned

complex

cultured

dainty

delicate

difficult

difficult to understand

distinguished

eclectic

elegant

erudite

experienced

exquisite

genteel

graceful

knotted

lettered

literate

maturity

perplexed

posh

recondite

retroflex

savant

seasoned

selective

senior

serpentine

slick

smart

student

🧑‍🎓

suave

tortuous

street smart

toughness

well-bred

well-educated

well-read

worldly wise

Translations

sofisticato

sofisticado

sophistiqué

raffiné

geraffineerd

sofisticado

hochentwickelt

kultiviert

raffinato

erfahren

πολύπειρος

kompliziert

anspruchsvoll

raffiniert

Etymology

First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.